Avoiding All Caps for Emphasis
Avoiding All Caps for Emphasis records the relevant Microsoft Style Guide convention while keeping it explicitly house-style scoped rather than presenting it as a universal grammar rule.
Do not use ALL CAPS merely to emphasize prose in Microsoft-style documentation; use clearer wording or an appropriate emphasis treatment instead.
Key details
Important caveats
Scope Boundary
This is Microsoft house style; literal strings, acronyms, ports, or product-specific text that is genuinely uppercase should still be reproduced accurately.
Further guidance
Content
Do not use ALL CAPS merely to emphasize prose in Microsoft-style documentation; use clearer wording or an appropriate emphasis treatment instead.
Purpose
Maintain readable, consistent typography without turning capitalization into a generic emphasis device.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
- Capitalization — Microsoft Style Guide (opens in a new tab)Microsoft · Microsoft technical-style guidance for sentence-style headings, acronym expansion capitalization and capitalization after colons